Amazon, Reddit, Guardian hit by massive Fastly CDN internet outage

John Leonard
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Many major sites were offline for up to one hour

Multiple sites including Amazon, Reddit and The Guardian, went offline at around 11am BST today in what appears to be an outage at Fastly, a US cloud computing services provider whose edge cloud pl...

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